Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 16 Under Alternative Site Framework Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

• Published date: 21 June 2019
• Citation: 84 FR 29158
• Record Number: 2019-13124
• Section: Notices
• Court: Foreign-trade Zones Board

Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 120 (Friday, June 21, 2019)

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2019)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 29158-29159]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-13124]
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                DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                Foreign-Trade Zones Board
                [Order No. 2084]
                Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 16 Under Alternative Site
                Framework Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
                 Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of
                June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade
                Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
                 Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Act provides for ``. . . the
                establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the
                United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for
                other purposes,'' and authorizes the Board to grant to qualified
                corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade zones in or
                adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ports of entry;
                 Whereas, the Board adopted the alternative site framework (ASF) (15
                CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization
                of zones;
                 Whereas, the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation,
                grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 16, submitted an application to the Board
                (FTZ Docket B-4-2019, docketed February 11, 2019) for authority to
                reorganize under the ASF with a service area of Chippewa County,
                Michigan, in and adjacent to the Sault Ste. Marie Customs and Border
                Protection port of entry, and FTZ 16's existing Site 1 would be
                categorized as a magnet site;
                 Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal
                Register (84 FR 4767, February 19, 2019) and the application has been
                processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
                 Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the
                examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and
                the Board's regulations are satisfied;
                 Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
                 The application to reorganize FTZ 16 under the ASF is approved,
                subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section
                400.13, to the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the
                zone, and to an ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would
                terminate authority for Site 1 if not activated within five years from
                the month of approval.
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                 Dated: June 11, 2019.
                Jeffrey I. Kessler,
                Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance Alternate Chairman,
                Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
                [FR Doc. 2019-13124 Filed 6-20-19; 8:45 am]
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